Note: If the criteria is too strict, maybe just a good forms generator that will do SOME of the forms for me, and where I would have to supply code to do the forms and dropdowns that have multi-column primary keys.

I think you would have a hard time finding one that fills your criteria especially multi-column primary keys. Those form generators are really basic stuff to quickly build an add/edit/delete function quickly.
A few questions here and you could have you form built in no time.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2013-09-08

This is for a new website and I am just designing the database now as well. I have always used composite (multi-column) primary keys on databases, where appropriate. I hate to think of designing the database without composite keys - just to make it easy for a forms generator to work easily.

I think I'll try the "FPMG" forms generator, and see how tedious it is to modify the SQL behind a form to properly work with a composite key.

That was one solution I was going to offer, but as I said the multi key is the problem
If you start trying to modify the code it produces you may end up spending more time trying to fix it than if you just started from scratch
What you are asking to build is not really that difficult and could be accomplished in a few hours, after which add some styling.

I've requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:

Not enough information to confirm an answer.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2015-05-10

Experts-exchange is asking me: "Are you sure you would like to cancel the request to delete this question?"

Um, what? What are you actually trying to say?

I didn't ask for the question to be deleted. Maybe at some point, someone will come back to this and make a recommendation that is useful. Creating forms for a database with 17 tables (2 are programatically added to/edited, 15 need forms for add/edit/delete functionality, and several other forms (one is complex) need to be created to complete this project.

So, a form-generator would certainly be a huge time saver. I can see where this would seem trivial if just a single form is needed. This isn't a trivial project.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2015-05-10

So, yes, I object to this being closed, and ask that it stay open indefinitely (waiting for a solution), or will be closed when a solution is found.

Would an MVC based approach work for you? like cakePHP (http://cakephp.org/). You can create a view for each table etc.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2015-05-11

Let's do this process the way it was meant to be done.

Please post that you'd like to continue the question and click the "object" button.

eenookami

I am running NoScript Facebook add-on. I have allowed all the scripts on experts-exchange except for google analytics and newrelic - neither of which should stop the site from working.

However, when I hit the "Object" button, nothing happens. Nothing gets posted.

Yes, I object to this being closed.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2015-05-11

OK, let's forget the "indefinitely", and just say that I'd like to keep this question open. Still looking for a solution.

I tried allowing ALL scripts to run in this site (including google analytics and newrelic), and the "Object" button still does nothing. Mods, please hit the "Object" button for me.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2015-05-11

What happened to Experts-Exchange? It now runs extremely slowly, and this "Object" functionality doesn't work at all. I closed and reopened my browser, with only one tab open (just EE) and no script blocking.

Mods, please hit the "Object" button for me, and then delete all of these extraneous posts regarding the "Object" functionality.

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dtleahyAuthor Commented: 2015-05-11

Thank you, Guy.

Thank you Rob jurd, for the CakePHP suggestion. I have downloaded it and I'm looking at it.